Description of Session
Reliable access to contraceptives is a key component to empower women, reduce maternal mortality, and build stronger communities. To date, 21.4 million women of reproductive age in developing countries who want to prevent pregnancy are not using modern contraceptive methods. While many primary health care facilities offer modern contraceptives, gaps remain to address a growing demand to reduce unmet need in low- and middle-income countries. To provide greater visibility and accessibility of contraceptive security data a dashboard was developed from the 2017 contraceptive security indicators survey. The data collected across the public and private sector monitors progress in political commitment, financial capital, partner coordination, capacity, client demand and use, and commodity availability. The dashboard is part of the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project and developed in partnership with Bixal, a digital communications and technology firm. In this session, we will explore the process used to transform this survey data from 36 countries into an interactive dashboard that can be scaled in its functionality. The dashboard is an integral part of an existing website (ghsupplychain.org) to leverage efficiency in product development and provide access to the entire breadth of the RH community. Establishing a clear vision from the start led to key design decisions for end users to access a range of data views. The back-end process to create a visually appealing dashboard started with standardized data and ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) implementation to create a visual in a progressively decoupled dashboard application written in React. The result is an easy to use interactive dashboard and data visual for policy-makers, program managers, advocates and key stakeholders implementing a contraceptive program in developing countries.
